Anyone work for Mead Westvaco?

[Jimmyz18]

I just got a job offer from them and not sure what to do. I was there last summer for an interview and it was hot and it smelled bad....lol

[Mike]

I don't work for Kapstone, but I deliver cars to them inside the Mill. You get used to the smell, but not the heat.

[bwelch]

My dad Works for Kapstone off virginia ave. The smell isn't that bad once your there but your car will smell like it. My dad doesn't notice the smell but I do everytime I get in it.

Was your job offer from Kapstone or Mead Westvaco? Kapstone owns the papermill but not the chemical side or the wood mill in summerville

[04ctd]

it's called the "smell of money" by folks who work there.

folks who drive by can't call it anything, because they can hardly breath.

most folks work there, says does not bother them.

better to work, than not to.....

[chrisheltra]

I can throw a rock at the place for the last 10+ years an hardly notice the smell anymore.

[cliff-1972]

Been there 12 years now,KapStone formly Mead Westvaco,and it is a great place to work.Once you make your 90 days you are pretty much locked in.The Chemical side,Mead Westvaco,is a great place to work also.Yes,it smells and is hot,more so hot on the papermill side though,but hey they real good:bigthumb::bigthumb:

[Jimmyz18]

My dad Works for Kapstone off virginia ave. The smell isn't that bad once your there but your car will smell like it. My dad doesn't notice the smell but I do everytime I get in it.

Was your job offer from Kapstone or Mead Westvaco? Kapstone owns the papermill but not the chemical side or the wood mill in summerville

It's from Mead Westvaco...the offer isn't much mor than I am making now....not sure what to do

Thanks for the info guys!!

Jim

[Mike]

It's from Mead Westvaco...the offer isn't much mor than I am making now....not sure what to do

Thanks for the info guys!!

Jim

I'm pretty sure B.J., screen-name is the same, works for Mead Westvaco. He's at the chemical side of Kapstone. I know he always yells at me for not delivering his tank cars on time. :twisted:

[Silver-Dollar]

I contract work for both Kapstone and MeadWestvaco. If you can get in, do it, specially Chemical Division. Both already when through major Reduction in Forces 4 years ago. What was the job description?

[Jimmyz18]

I contract work for both Kapstone and MeadWestvaco. If you can get in, do it, specially Chemical Division. Both already when through major Reduction in Forces 4 years ago. What was the job description?

Entry level operator.

[Silver-Dollar]

Just remember, as long as they are making product, they will need operators.

[Matts94Z28]

What kind of work does the chemical side do?

I do extractions on some of kapstones paper a fee times per year.

[Silver-Dollar]

At this mill, they take the byproducts of the paper making process and turn it into asphalt additives, turpentine soaps (Murphy's Oil Soap), and other stuff with high skin and eye irritants. I swear they could make a pepper spray alternative.

http://www.meadwestvaco.com/SpecialtyChemicals/AboutMWVSpecialtyChemicals/MWVD006135

[Matts94Z28]

Sounds miserable! Lol.

[Silver-Dollar]

Operator's run the processes. They sit a terminals and press on-screen "buttons", check on alarms, and manually open and close valves. It is really a pretty gravy job once you learn the process and safety awareness. Plus, they get paid pretty good with good benefits and holidays/vacations.

[gearmesh, inc.]

What sucks is if you are a control room operator on rotating shifts. One of the hardest things to do is to stay awake on the graveyard shift while you are waiting for some of the processes to complete.

I don't mind working a shift other than dayshift if I would be left on that shift. Swinging back and forth from days to nights every week on a rotating schedule will eventually get someone damn near killed. Your body never settles down into a proper sleep pattern. I already feel 10 years younger after getting away from the rotating schedule I was on at Nucor.

When I was out at Nucor getting off one morning from graveyard shift, one of my fellow co-workers fell asleep in his truck on the entry road leaving the mill and T-boned the ditch on the other side of Cainhoy Road. It's bad enough to hit the other side of the ditch like that, but just think if there was another car driving down Cainhoy Road at the time he ran through the stop sign.

[Mike]

Swinging back and forth from days to nights every week on a rotating schedule will eventually get someone damn near killed. Your body never settles down into a proper sleep pattern.

+1

The last 15 years I have pretty much been on-call 24x7 never knowing when I'm going to work. It rotates day to day never knowing what day or time it will be. We do get 48 hours off every 14, but damn those hours fly by. Normal 9-5 jobs get 60+ hours for weekends.

I love when we are busy. Work-sleep-work-sleep..., without any more than 12 hours between shifts. That way when I go to work I just woke up. Give me any more than 16-20 hours off and there is no telling how long I'll have to stay awake before I get to sleep again.

[KissMyWhiteSS]

i used to work for a contractor that worked out there all the time...once your in you don't smell it so much....it is hot, but that's no matter where you work if you're outside. Are you working in the Chemical Plant?

[Jimmyz18]

i used to work for a contractor that worked out there all the time...once your in you don't smell it so much....it is hot, but that's no matter where you work if you're outside. Are you working in the Chemical Plant?

Yes, the job is in the chemical side.

[Chillerman]

I just got a job offer from them and not sure what to do. I was there last summer for an interview and it was hot and it smelled bad....lol

Not going to tell you what to do. It's not easy getting a job out there. Usually you need to know someone on the inside to get hired there. I work on their chillers out there. You don't notice the smell so much when your inside the mill. They have a lot of folks out there who stay until retirement.

Send RM1 a p/m, he works at the mill.

[nordic97mist]

Somebody wanna be my best friend and get me a job in there? I'll buy you lunch everyday

[cliff-1972]

Apply at Trident One Stop they are always hiring labor workers,I think it starts @ $13-$14 an hour.This is for KapStone,but I believe the same applies to Mead Westvaco too.

[Jimmyz18]

Take some of Trident One Stop's Assement Keys tests, I had to take three last year for MWV

[85chevyman]

i need to apply too :)

[KissMyWhiteSS]

It's a good place to work...alot of the people there have been there for many years... Paper mills are pretty awesome I think...the process it takes to get to paper is insane. I would have never expected it. The chemical side is cool too...I've ran a few lines out there that had chemical lime in it, as well as vacuumed everything out of the scrubber tank. That was kind of scary being inside a tank on top of material not knowing where the bottom is! The bag houses are no fun either!!! Good Luck!

[98Blackbird]

Every time I hit Virginia ave the smell is rough but I image everyone there is used to it. I have never worked there but I fish behind the plant and arrest hookers from the park next to it on a regular basis. Take the interstate tO Virginia and avoid Remount.

[bwelch]

Every time I hit Virginia ave the smell is rough but I image everyone there is used to it. I have never worked there but I fish behind the plant and arrest hookers from the park next to it on a regular basis. Take the interstate tO Virginia and avoid Remount.

NCPD?

[KissMyWhiteSS]

Every time I hit Virginia ave the smell is rough but I image everyone there is used to it. I have never worked there but I fish behind the plant and arrest hookers from the park next to it on a regular basis. Take the interstate tO Virginia and avoid Remount.


Oh shit, I better find a better place to make my money then... :ty: